Conveners
7.2 High Current and High Power Pulsers II
- Martial Toury (CEA)
The Series Pulse-Line Integrated Test Stand (SPLITS) comprises a set of four, 5.5ohm coaxial pulse forming lines that are each capable of producing a -300kV pulse when driving a matched resistive load. The hardware’s modular design allows series configurations for driving multiple pulses into a common load. The water filled pulse lines are discharged by SF6 insulated laser triggered gas...
The Saturn X-ray generator is a 2.5 megavolt, 10 megampere electrical driver at Sandia National Laboratories. Saturn has been in operation for more than 30 years. A plan is under development to identify key areas of the machine, improvement of which would benefit operational efficiency and reproducibility of the system. Saturn is used to create high-dose, short-pulse intense radiation...
Electrical parameters (current and voltage) of intense electron beams are often difficult to measure directly in pulsed power experiments, and additional information (electron angles of incidence) is required to determine the photon spectra produced. Measured dose-rates in the far field at selected angles can determine the electron-beam current, voltage, and an effective angle of incidence on...
First Light Fusion Ltd (FLF) is a privately funded company researching energy generation using inertial confinement fusion. Efforts are centred around developing both simulation and experimental capabilities. Simulation combined with experimental efforts increase our understanding of electromagnetic launch and novel target physics, with a focus on code validation. Two low inductance pulsed...
Nanosecond high voltage pulse generators are widely used in dielectric barrier discharges, plasma jets, corona discharges in water, et al. In this paper, a novel bipolar pulse adder with output parameters adjustable is proposed. Several full bridge MOSFET units are connected in series. And the storage capacitors in each units is charged isolated by a high-frequency resonant power supply. In...
